Best-Sellers

1. "A Thousand Splendid Suns," by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $25.95). A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war.

2. "The Quickie," by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown, $27.99). A police officer's attempt to get back at her husband, whom she suspects of cheating on her, goes dangerously awry.

3. "The Secret Servant," by Daniel Silva (Putnam, $25.95). Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and an occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, joins the search for the kidnapped daughter of an American ambassador.